Is the World Combat League any good?

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Posted in: enart.nnmj.com Date: March 11th, 2010

I have recently heard about the World Combat League and I know it's a strike only martial arts competition, is it worth watching for someone who is a UFC & K-1 fan?

Also would any of the guys in WCL be able to step up to UFC, in other words im asking who is the best fighter pound for Pound?

I am a pretty big fan of fight competition in general and I like it pretty well. It is pretty fast paced striking that doesn't allow for any type of stalling. There are actually a few guys in there that have also competed in the UFC. Pete Spratt fights with them, Guy Mezger and Tre Telligman coached. With some takedown defense I think there may be a few who could really go MMA, but like anyone else they would need to build up to UFC level.

I like it but I'm not an MMA fan either. There is more technique and less blood lust IMHO.

As for if the WCL guys could step into the UFC, could the UFC guys step into the WCL? They are different just like baseball and cricket; football and rugby. Same basic skills but different rules and different goals.

First off, know this, the freaking UFC isn't the best fighting organization out there. I think it is stupid how people think the UFC is like some freaking golden chalice and everything else is benath it.

NEWS FLASH!

You can't really compare one thing that is fundementally ground based to something that doesn't go to the ground at all. Most of the guys that are in the WCL probably have little or no ground fight training at all, so, yes, they probably would lose to better mma fighters in the UFC. But, I'm not saying that mma is unbeatable, because it isn't. If you took some the best mma fighters, and threw them into the WCL, they would get their *** kicked because most UFC fighters aren't nearly as good as strikers as they are on the ground, and thats all the WCL is, striking.

I hate it how people put the UFC on a freaking pedestal. Like I said before, MMA isn't unbeatable. I do MMA, TKD, BJJ, and a little akido. Me and my best friend train at the same MMA gym, and one night, just for kicks, we had a sparring match were I used only TKD moves (because I defend TKD when people put it down all the time) and the instructor-in-training used the mma stuff that they taught. I KO'd him 15 seconds into the first round on a front kick to the gut followed by a three sixty roundhouse to the head when he was bent over.

To answer your question, yes, at what they practice, the better fighters in the WCL are pretty good. People who actually enjoy fighting sports and martial arts, and appreciate each one will find it just as entertaining as any other. However, you will also find the UFC douchebags, who believe that the freaking UFC is something to be worshipped, that say mma is the best, and the WCL sucks. People who actually look at the various aspects of martial arts, instead of one or two, will find the WCL just as entertaining as anything else.

The answer is no the wcl is interesting to watch but they use to many useless flash moves such axe kicks which would lead to a crushing takedown in the ufc. As for your question about the wcl being worth your time to watch I would say if nothing else was on but as a K-1 and ufc fan myself I can say that K-1 and ufc are by far more realistic, skillful, and technically more advance than the wcl. It would be like comparing King of the cage to UFC.

It's worth my time, you could actually see things there that are not being done in the UFC and K-1. But if their main guys are pitted against top UFC & K-1 fighters, I doubt any of those guys from WCL would make it. I do enjoy watching their eye-candy moves but I wouldn't apply them in a real fight.

I'm sure the competitors are good, but I don't especially enjoy watching it. One of the things I don't like is what's supposed to be one of its strong points: The need for constant action, and the rapid penalization for inaction.

What you sometimes end up with is a lack of strategy and an excess of flailing around. Strategy often calls for backing off, for looking for openings, for stalking your opponent. For better or worse, the WCL discourages that.

The competition is totally different than the UFC. So, while my answer would be: It's not very likely that many of them would be competitive in the UFC, that's not taking anything away from the WCL competitors. They're fine at what they do. But it's a different sport, and one that doesn't fully grab my attention.

Now I haven't watched it in like two years, so maybe it's changed... But when I had watched a few shows of WCL, it was so sloppy. As somebody else mentioned, the competitors just went into a frenzy since they barely had any time and flailed like spazzes. As somebody who watches combat sports to view inspiring technique, I was pretty underwhelmed by the spazziness. If I wanted to see people just going crazy, I'd watch backyard boxing on youtube.

Flailing doesn't get you far in K1 or UFC, so unless the WCL guy fought very differently I don't think he'd make it in either of the orgs you've mentioned.

As for Rob, you've got it backwards. How does UFC have more 'bloodlust?' The fighters there take their time, since they have more than 3 minutes to go at it. In WCL they bum rush each other and brawl.

And Revan, MMA IS the best fighting COMPETITION style in the world. It is the most expansive and allows the most techniques with as few limitations as possible. As for your dubious story, I guess that (hypothetically) makes you quite the bad@$$ since you can KTFO your instructor. LOL hey maybe you could even make it in the UFC and show them how unimpressive their league truly is. Or maybe you're just talking out of your butt. Smart money goes on the latter.

(And for the record, let it be known that I'm skeptical of Revan KOing his MMA instructor not because he's a TKD guy, but because based on most of his answers he doesn't seem to know what he's doing.)

Depends on what you're in to. The fighters only have a single 3-minute round to fight, so the action is furious, if kind of sloppy. Occasionally you get some nice technique, too.

I only know of a few WCL guys who've done MMA. They haven't done that well. Since most of their time is spent striking, they get taken down and submitted pretty quickly.

I love it. I also love UFC. They are quite different.

It has much more dynamic and exciting kicks and also has about a 36% knockout ratio.

I think it's definitely worth watching.

They get penalized for stalling, holding, general inactivity, etc.

It's a 3 minute round, but they have to go all out for all 3 minutes or they get points deducted.

James

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